After 14 Democrat members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to remove Kash Patel, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), from his leadership post, one gun rights group is leading the resistance to the request.
On March 3, the anti-gun lawmakers, calling themselves the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, sent the letter to President Trump, spouting lies early in the correspondence.
“At a time when gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the United States, it is unconscionable that someone without experience fighting crime, responding to mass shootings or confronting domestic terrorism has been named as ATF’s Acting Director,” the letter, which lied about the children part, stated.
After lying about several other topics including violent crime falling during the Biden Administration, the alleged “success” of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) and so-called “red-flag” laws saving lives, the House members wrapped up the letter with a personal attack on Patel.
“Running ATF is a deadly serious job,” the letter concluded. “Naming an unqualified partisan to oversee our federal gun violence prevention laws is a disservice to the American people an offensive to every American child who has grown up fearful of gun violence in their schools and communities. We urge you to name a qualified director at ATF who will faithfully administer laws that keep Americans safe.”
The letter didn’t sit well with the leaders of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), who suggested in a news release that the lawmakers “pound sand,” while also pointing out some of the lies in the letter.
“Apparently, everybody who signed that letter slept through last year’s stunning revelation that the FBI’s initial report of a 1.7 percent decrease in violent crime from 2021 to 2022 was quietly adjusted to show a 4.5 percent increase,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “House Oversight Chair James Comer launched a probe of this revision last October.”
Gottlieb speculated that the Democrats are primarily concerned that Patel may attempt to reverse some of the unconstitutional Final Rules issued by the agency during the Biden Administration, which weaponized the ATF against gun owners, sellers and manufacturers.
“Maybe these Democrats are concerned that Patel will investigate possible abuses the agency allegedly committed during the Biden years,” Gottlieb said. “While they complain how ‘it is unconscionable that someone without experience fighting crime, responding to mass shootings or confronting domestic terrorism has been named as ATF’s Acting Director,’ under Patel’s leadership at FBI, the agency has just caught its third ‘Most Wanted’ fugitive since President Trump took office.”
Ultimately, Gottlieb said that those signing on to the letter are merely gun-ban advocates who have consistently been on the wrong side of the Second Amendment debate.
“Capitol Hill Democrats are delighted to have an ATF which gets mixed up in colossal debacles like Operation Fast and Furious or canceling federal firearms licenses because a small dealer might make a technical paperwork error,” he said. “Yet, where have these Democrats been when their colleagues have championed legislation making it tougher for law-abiding citizens to exercise their full rights under the Second Amendment? Where were they when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were advocating for gun bans and restrictions on the rights of young adults? They were right there pushing for and cheering such infringements.”
“Running ATF is a deadly serious job”
It sure is. How many law abiding citizens did they kill over the last four years with their unnecessary SWAT-like raids?
Pretty much all of them involved.
Those dogs aren’t going to shoot themselves.
Patel ain’t done shirt yet.
You can often judge a persons capabilities by how much his enemies hate him.
Yeah look at the abuse Hegseth et all are getting from Dims over pretty much nothing. And the magazine editor is a traitor. There’s literally hell to pay for that🙄
Revenge of the deep state? Someone patched that journo in.
“Yeah look at the abuse Hegseth et all are getting from Dims over pretty much nothing. “
Not exactly. Discussing pending military attacks, even without “when, where, who” is introducing sensitive information (yes a classification of restricted release information) into a conference call, where the members were not all privy to the information, is a serious breach. Not to mention really dumb for not vetting the phone app they were using; relying on use by the past administration to assure themselves using the app was safe and appropriate.
Military careers have been broken over such “ooopsie” behavior. Trump should have dismissed everyone on that phone call. Instead he, and the participants are prolonging the event, giving the Dims a free gift, a gift that will keep on giving, jeopardizing the 2026 mid-terms, where the GOP is already in trouble, and set up for even smaller majority in the House; if, they are lucky.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3359410/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-could-determine-control-of-the-house/
“We urge you to name a qualified director at ATF who will faithfully administer laws that keep Americans safe.” Oh! You mean someone like Steven Dettelbach! You might want to consult Brian Malinowski’s family first.
The very fact that the letter was created and delivered is clear evidence that President Trump made the right selection when he nominated Kash Patel.
If people such as these are against something, then there has to be something good and correct about the issue. These people talk about “qualified” as if they are qualified when all they did was win a popularity contest.
Pen a pertinet comment and it doesn’t appear.
Yep.
Doubtful
Patel reversing ATF’s final rule.
Give me a break.
That is the Supreme Court’s job and they have just shown us how that works out.
Misdirection and propaganda.
🎶Here comes the new boss
Same as the old boss🎶
Ok miner
Patel reversing ATF’s final rule.
That is the job of the Supreme Court is it not and they have just shown us how that works out.
It’s an atf rule. They wrote it and put it into effect. They can write another revoking it.
The likelyhood of that happening has the same chance as a snowball in front of Rex Nanorums flame thrower